Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Last night I somehow got sucked into watching 2 tv shows I
thought I would never watch.‘Swamp
Pawn’ and ‘My Big Redneck Vacation.’When pigs started flying I don’t know, but I watched those two shows.
‘Swamp Pawn’ was not as bad as I expected it to be.The show is supposed to be about a man living
in a Louisiana bayou who runs a wholesale fish business and also a pawn
business on the side.But to say it is a
show committed to televising the pawning of items as the title implies is like
saying that I am going to build a rocket ship and then only lighting a match to
watch it burn.During this whole one
hour episode, do you know how much time was actually given to a pawned
item?A single pawned item?!About 30 seconds!!!30 short seconds out of a 3600 second long
show.I wound up liking the storyline of
the featured people and wished them well in their business.However, I think having the word ‘Pawn’ in
the title is fraud.They should just
call it ‘Swamp People Who Want to be on TV.’
Furthermore, I think television has gone too far with all of
these spin-off tv series about the same damn thing.We have one too many shows about stupid
pageant parents where the shows border on the brink of child abuse and child
exploitation; more dumbass, hot-headed, soulless, gold-digging housewives than
you can shake a stick at; and more than enough pawn shows to last a
lifetime.But if tv producers insist on
making more ‘pawn’ shows, I have a couple of suggestions.(Keep in mind that the majority of the items
pawned on pawn shows are sold to the business owner and not actually pawned.)

1)‘Boob Pawn’The storyline would consist of strippers pawning their breast implants
so they can try to buy back their daddies love.

2)‘Soul Pawn’This show would be about
talentless, debauched heathens pawning their soul to the devil for a tv
show.(*cough cough* examples: The Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo, Bachelor/Bachelorette
people, Bridezillas etc*cough cough*)

3) 'Silent Time Pawn' Here some movie patrons would pawn/sell their silence in movies for theater food or gold jewelry.

Now on to ‘My Big Redneck Vacation.’This of the two was the worst for me.In this episode, the redneck family was
driven down to Miami Beach.Oh, those
poor Miamians.The Miamians would more
likely prefer the swimming Cubans and drug dealers to these out-of-place
rednecks.The locals of South Beach
probably did not know what hit them when this bunch rolled into town. There were so many awful awkward moments, they
were tangible through time and tv.One
particularly terrible awkward moment happened while the family was on South
Beach. The men decided they would be
sly, charming and flirty with a couple of topless women.Instead, the men were dumbstruck, clueless
and way out of their league.Watching
them try to talk to the sun-bathers was so painful, it made my ta-tas and
vajayjay cringe.

I am sure this redneck family from Louisiana is super nice
and willing to help people who may be in trouble, but for the love of all
things great, please get them off tv.We
have enough train wrecks (figuratively speaking) in this world that to put them
in places and situations that are so incalculably out of their comfort zone is
equivalent to rapper Chris Brown to Abusers Anonymous meetings.Oh tv, you hurt my brain.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

People
updating their Facebook status with uninteresting and worthless posts that no
one really cares about really irritates the hell out of me.Here are some examples of what I mean:“off to work” or “have to go pay bills” or “I
can’t sleep” or “grocery shopping at (store name) with (name of person who may
have been drugged and then forcefully hauled off to the grocery store).”To the people who post these kinds updates,
let me assure you of one thing – 99.999% of this world’s population does NOT
care.

There
are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people who go to work every
day.Those of you who feel the need to
tell the Facebook world that you are off to work are not special.Good for you for actually being employed,
especially in today’s economy, but working is not new.Being employed has been around since the
beginning of humans.We are all constantly
employed in one way or another – growing a garden, cleaning house, raising
children, walking your dog(s), maintaining your car’s operability or actually
working a job that pays– I think you
get the point.So I will reiterate: working
is neither new nor only done by a few.

For
those of you who feel the need to inform us you are paying bills, we get
it.It is a mundane task that regularly
sucks the life out of you and most likely ruins your checking account.But be happy you actually have services to
pay for (like phone, power, water, cable etc) and shut the hell up.Again, we do not care and you are not
special.

Also,
for the people who inform the FB world that you can’t sleep, telling us isn’t
going to help your problem.Put away the
phone/ipad/laptop because they stimulate your brain, which in turn keeps you
awake.Want to go to sleep?SHUT OFF THE ELECTRONICS!

And
finally, there is no reason to bring us up to date about grocery shopping or
other errands that you have to do continually to maintain yourself and
household.You are not the only person
in this whole wide world who does these kinds of tasks.Telling us you are going to/at the grocery
store does not mean crap to us because 99.99% of us will not share any meals
with you at your house anytime soon.Keep it to yourself people.Unless something bizarre, extraordinary, just plain wrong or
unbelievable happens – examples: you ran into Hugh Jackman and attached his
face with your tongue or you saw a 3yo child throwing back shots of bourbon -
just keep it to yourself!

So
to these people who think that we have to know every insignificant thing you
are doing, get your heads out of your rears and know that we do not care about
posts of the similar variety stated above.But if you feel that you need to post something or otherwise your day is
not complete, and you have knowingly done nothing interesting in your day, for hell’s
sake make something up!Say you fought
hand-to-hand combat with a dragon after tracking it down on a unicorn or
planted an empty m&ms bag hoping to grow your own giant m&m tree or
swam the depths of the ocean and danced the salsa with an octopus. Or how about
post no status - nothing at all.

Monday, January 21, 2013

The
other night I had what seemed to be extra veggies in my fridge that would not
be eaten individually before going bad.And as I am the only one in our household who gladly eats cooked
veggies, I knew I had to something with all of them and do it soon.So I rounded them up and got some out of the
freezer too and decided to sauté them.**Please
note – I did not measure anything.I
just kind of threw it all together.

I
started with a medium sauté pan and put in some olive oil, sesame oil and soy
sauce.I put in just enough of the
liquids to barely cover the pan.In the
back, those are frozen brussel sprouts boiling until they are just turning
tender.I did not have any fresh ones on
hand otherwise this part would be unnecessary.

As
the oils were getting hot and after the sprouts tenderized, I set to work to getting
the other veggies together to dish them up for their Olan Mills style picture.

Here
I have frozen corn, frozen green beans, fresh white mushrooms, the tender
brussel sprouts and raw cauliflower.**The reason I boiled the brussel sprouts and not the other frozen foods
is because of their density and thickness.(After the boiling bath, I did cut the sprouts in half.)The beans and corn I knew would be cook just
fine as they were.**

Here
are the veggies sautéing

I
put the cauliflower, brussel sprouts and green beans in first, followed by the
corn and mushrooms about 5 minutes later.Let all of that sauté for about 3-4 minutes and then added in dashes of
garlic salt and nature’s own seasoning.

I must say I found this dish to be really tasty.Obviously, if you wanted to try this, different veggies could be put in to
suit your own personal taste.Other
veggies such as carrots, broccoli, celery, asparagus etc.Spinach would be good too – cooked till
barely wilted.I wonder how pineapple
chunks would work in something like this???Hmmm that will be something to try the next go round.Anyway if you decide to give this a whirl, I hope
you enjoy it!

Thursday, January 10, 2013

I did not expect my first post (introduction excluded) to be
somewhat political about a controversial topic but here goes.

The woman in Walton County Georgia, I think, did a
remarkable and brave thing the other day when she shot the home intruder to
protect herself and children.I am happy
that she exercised her 2nd amendment right and felt confident enough
in her ability to use the weapon as needed.Throughout this week, while listening to many news reports, there was a
mention that once this intruder recovers from his injuries that he could
possibly sue the woman and her family for said injuries.I hope that is not the case because I believe
he lost all rights to sue for injuries once he premeditated the burglary and
intended on hurting those inside.

As you are very well aware, there are, what seems to be,
thousands of individual discussions occurring now about gun control and gun
violence prevention given the tragic actions of a few people in the past couple
of years.During these conversations
there are many ideas tossed about and argued regarding banning certain
firearms, doing mental back-ground checks on people purchasing guns and many
more.One idea is to have a national
list of people who have been diagnosed/treated for mental illness so gun/ammo
dealers can identify them when these people try to purchase said merchandise.It seems like that once it gets wholly
fleshed out there is a small chance it could work.The one major roadblock to this plan I see is
that some people with severe mental illnesses may not always seek the necessary
treatment; therefore they fall through the system cracks, and then a few decide
they should go shoot many innocent people. So, instead of doing background checks to learn if potential
gun/ammo purchasers, maybe there could be a test that every gun/ammo selling
business should have people take to determine if they are stable enough to buy this
merchandise.So I have come up with a
list of questions for just such a scenario. (And yes, I realize I am probably
being outlandish with this but I just could not help myself.)They are:1)Do you have the capacity to love yourself and
others

2)Do you value life

3)Do you have honest healthy relationships with
others

4)Are you able to respect and empathize with
others

5)Do you understand there are consequences for
your actions

6)Do you believe your evil-eyed bunny slippers
talk to you and like doing cocaine

7)Do you believe that you will become leader of a
kingdom of nugget-sized people made of marshmallow fluff, have three eyes, have
horse tail for hair and octopus tentacles for arms

8)Is Hitler one of your heroes

9)Doyou frequently
wear tinfoil on your head to prevent the aliens from taking over your mind

10)Do you often try to eat your shoes

11)When going out in public, does your normal
outfit consist of a court jester’s hat, clown make-up, boulder-sized shoulder
pads, parachute pants made of llama fur, a sword made of bedazzled foam and
sparkles , elfin shoes covered with feathers and a small but real birdhouse as
a necklace

If there is more than 1 ‘no’ to questions 1-5 and more than 1
‘yes’ to questions 6-11, then, please send those people to the crazy farm!

And today's pun – courtesy of the internet - Biologists have
recently produced immortal frogs by removing their vocal cords. They can't
croak.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Welcome to my blog! Lately I have come to feel that I might have ideas, opinions and tips/advice I perceive to be helpful that people may like to waste their precious time reading. ;-)I chose the title because it seemed fitting for all that I might blog about. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word 'view' has several meanings; the paraphrased definitions are 1) range of vision; 2) the act of examining; 3) an opinion; and 4) a pictorial representation. Since there is no telling what all I may write about in the future, I thought 'the view from my view' seemed fitting and would not limit me to specific topics.There is a great chance the entries will neither be insightful nor philosophical. So I caution you all to keep your expectations low. What I do hope you find are amusing, thoughtful reads and maybe, just maybe, something new to try when I share things I have tried and found worthy of sharing.Oh and since I love puns, I will try to add one to every blog. A pun created by my own genius wit or one I heard elsewhere.Enjoy!

About Me

I am happily married and work full-time in the personal lines insurance industry. Hubby and I eloped to Las Vegas in May 2009 and then became dog parents in January 2010. Dog takes up quite a bit of time but he is goofy and so much fun.

My early years were made of riding horses and competing in various events in rodeos. That was a great way to grow up. Hubby and I moved to Atlanta in 2007. I really enjoyed living in the city and all of the exciting things you can do here; then we moved in 2014 to NC and now live in the out in country. Quite a different pace of life to say the least!